13 Why dost thou strive against him? for he doth not [a]give account of all his matters.

14 For God speaketh [b]once or twice, and one seeth it not.

15 In dreams and [c]visions of the night, when sleep falleth upon men, and they sleep upon their beds,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 33:13 The cause of his judgments is not always declared to man.
  2. Job 33:14 Though God by sundry examples of his judgments speak unto man, yet the reason thereof is not known: yea and though God should speak, yet is he not understood.
  3. Job 33:15 God saith he, speaketh commonly, either by visions to teach us the cause of his judgments, or else by afflictions, or by his messenger.

13 Why do you complain to him(A)
    that he responds to no one’s words[a]?(B)
14 For God does speak(C)—now one way, now another(D)
    though no one perceives it.(E)
15 In a dream,(F) in a vision(G) of the night,(H)
    when deep sleep(I) falls on people
    as they slumber in their beds,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 33:13 Or that he does not answer for any of his actions